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LOT 0532
Greek Terracotta Oil Lamp
LATE 2ND CENTURY B.C.
3 3/4 in. (99 grams, 94 mm).
With low, swelling, globular body with unpierced lug on left side, rounded inward-sloping rim marked off by a shallow outer groove; large filling-hole, short rounded nozzle with large oval wick-hole, small raised circular base. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex P.A. collection, Hertfordshire, UK, 1990s.
Literature
See Bussière, J., Lindros Wohl, B., Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2017, no.16, p.18.
Footnotes
According to Howland, this type (33A), attested in the Athenian Agora during a period from the last quarter of the third century B.C. to the third quarter of the second century, is not well defined: ‘Its forms are irregular, not following a definite set pattern’. Specimens are also recorded in Magna Graecia (Paestum).
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